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SharePoint Conference 2009 (#SPC09) : My Session Schedule

By: Hersh Ajgaonkar Posted: October 19, 2009 at 3:29 AM

So, after spending a lot more time than I would have liked on locking down the sessions I want to attend at the SPC, I finally narrowed it down to these. Due to my background in development, most of these are development tracks. I plan on watching the IT tracks once they are available online. I have a feeling that with the 250 sessions planned, once the conference starts, I won’t end up sticking to the sessions listed below and may have to change my game plan based on how things go.

It’s funny that I started this post on Monday last week and left it in draft mode. Now here I am at my hotel post registration finally posting this to my blog. Attended #ShareIndian, #SharePint – all great events and had a good time meeting a lot of SharePoint peeps. Looking forward to some 2010 goodness tomorrow…err, later this morning.

SharePoint Conference 2009 (#SPC09) : T - 7d

By: Hersh Ajgaonkar Posted: October 11, 2009 at 5:33 PM

So, after a really long time, I am getting back to blogging about SharePoint. Can’t be a better time than this as I get ready to attend the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas with about 7000 SharePoint Peeps. It’s going to be fantastic. So, to start out, here is some information I gathered in preparation for the conference.

Logistics Here is a snapshot of a map I found online for the Strip; the original can be found here

If you are attending the conference and haven’t rented a car, you can find a shuttle to almost all the hotels on the strip for about $7. I believe it’s on the west side of baggage claim, gates 7-10(?).

Also, if you are staying at the Luxor or Excalibur, there is a free tram between these hotels and Mandalay Bay running every 3-7 minutes or so. It’s also not a bad walk since all three hotels are connected.

There are other monorail’s connecting various hotels. You can find more info here

Prep Joel Oleson’s “10 Steps to prepare for the conference” blog is a must read. He does a great job of capturing, in one place, all of the things you need to do before and during the conference.

Events: If you are a SharePoint enthusiast and want to meet other SharePoint tweeps, please sign up for some of these community (you pay for yourself) events here: EndUser SharePoint’s Eventbrite registration.

I am attending the following events, so hope to see you there (Details for the community events are on the registration page I mentioned earlier).

Sunday 10/18: (Community Event) #ShareIndian at Origin India– Indian food with other SharePoint peeps followed by #SharePint at EyeCandy in Mandalay Bay. There are about a 100 peeps registered (as of this weekend) for #ShareIndian and 200 or so expected at #SharePint

Tuesday 10/20: (Microsoft Event) Microsoft Conference attendee party

Wednesday 10/21: I will be at the PointBridge & Hyland Party. I wish I could win the $500 gaming chip that will be given away ;-). If you’d like to attend this party, please stop by Booth 500 (PointBridge) or Booth 807 (Hyland Software) for your wristband for entrance to the event.

Thursday 10/22: (Community Event) #ShareHofbrau dinner

The full conference session details will be released tomorrow, Monday 10/12. I’ll be posting the ones I am interested in attending, on my blog.

I’d love to meet as many of you, as possible, during the conference. So, if you see me, please stop by and say Hi. You can connect with me on Twitter ( wcyber ) or Facebook.( /hershatwork ). I plan on posting pictures etc from the event on Facebook during the event.

Can’t wait for the session details to be posted tomorrow. Okay, now back to some 2010 work.

Team Foundation Server - Undo Check Out

By: Hersh Ajgaonkar Posted: December 27, 2006 at 10:54 PM

On various projects, there are occassions when files are left locked by team members leaving the project or while on long vacations. In VSS, the administrator could simply select the file(s) and chose to undo-checkout.

A couple of months ago, our TFS installation was moved from one domain to another and some files were locked out with user accounts from a domain that was retired. Well, being the admin, I thought it was just a matter of selecting the files and unlocking them. Well, guess what - the option either didnt show up or when it did, it was grayed out. After researching this, I found out that the way to unlock, undo-check out is using the command line options:

1. Check the status of the file in question

c:\tf status "$/ProjectRoot/Project/File" /server:<servername> /format:detailed

2. Since we need to know the name of the workspace for the next few commands, the following command will give us this information

c:\tf workspaces /owner:<domain>\<userid> /computer:* /server:<servername>

3. Unlock the 'locked' file

c:\tf lock /lock:none "$/ProjectRoot/Project/File" /workspace:<workspace-name>;<domain>\<userid> /s:<servername>

4. If required, undo the changes using the following command

c:\tf undo "$/ProjectRoot/Project/File" /workspace:<workspace-name>;<domain>\<userid> /server:<servername>

For each of the above commands, you need to have the correct administrative rights on the project/TFS server.

Hope this helps others in similar situations. I am not sure why this is not clearly documented.

Breadcrumbs & Custom pages

By: Aaron Steele Posted: October 1, 2006 at 11:24 AM

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Whenever we need to write an aspx page that needs to be invoked in the context of a sharepoint site, we can put them in the '_layouts' virtual.To make the page look like the other sharepoint '_layouts' pages (e.g. Site Settings etc), our custom aspx page will need to use the master page just like the other pages. The master page that we need is "application.master" which is defined as the aspx page attribute MasterPageFile="~/_layouts/application.master" and exists in the 'layouts' directory. Since in this post, we are focusing on the breadcrumb show up for our page, let's take a look at how that works. The application.master page actually contains the breadcrumb control defined in it's body as:

<asp:SiteMapPath SiteMapProvider="SPXmlContentMapProvider" id="ContentMap" SkipLinkText="" runat="server"/>

When you look at the above, it indicates that it uses the ASP.NET 2.0 provider mechanism (specifically the sitemap provider) to create the breadcrumb. It also suggests the type (XML) of storage that this provider probably uses. The XML file we are looking for is in the "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\<site dir>\_app_bin" directory. The file 'layouts.sitemap' which resides in this directory contains the breadcrumb information we need for the files in the layouts directory.

The file consists of a hierarchical structure made up of 'sitemapnode' XML nodes. A typical sitemapnode node looks like this:

<siteMapNode title="<custom breadcrumb name>" url="/_layouts/<aspxfilename>" />

All we need to do now is to add our own 'sitemapnode' in the spot we need in the hierarchy. Next time you hit your page, you should see the breadcrumb show up.

Great MOSS Resource Page

By: Aaron Steele Posted: August 11, 2006 at 11:24 AM

To avoid looking this up everytime I need something - thought this would be the best place to keep this link and share it:

http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/MossWcmResources.aspx

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